If You Give A Mouse A Cookie

This year, I've decided to base all our arts and crafts around children's books. I love using 'themes' and this seemed to be the perfect way to incorporate more fun stuff into our homeschool day.

We spent a few days reading the book, 'If You Give a Mouse a Cookie'. This is a very popular and super cute book about what happens when you give a mouse a cookie.

 

After reading through the book, we made these adorable puffy paint cookies.

       

These were very easy and the kiddos loved them! Find the instructions and puffy paint recipe here at No Time For Flash Cards.

       

And who could read 'If You Give a Mouse a Cookie' without making cookies?!?! So we whipped up a batch of the most delicious chocolate chip cookies ever! This recipe was the best I have found so far. We've made two batches of these cookies and they never last more than two days.

So while we were waiting on our cookies to get finished baking, I found this idea over on The Preschool Experiment, and thought it would be a great game for little E. I made colored paper plates and paper cookies with colored 'chips', then put all the cookies on a baking sheet (which he uses for his magnet pages). He then could put all the cookies on their corresponding plate. He really enjoyed this and big sister J liked 'helping' even more.

(I know E is a blur in the picture, but anyone with an active little boy who doesn't stay still longer than 1 second knows why) 

TIME FOR COOKIES!!

Let me just tell you again how good these cookies are! They're awesome! And were gone fast.